[600MRG] Newby on the air WG2XPJ beacon testing

[Brian Pease]

I have a CW Beacon operating within about 10Hz of 472.2kHz.  I am 
running 100 Watts from a newly completed Class-E amp temporarily driven 
by a Protek DDS waveform generator.  The antenna is a full-size 
horizontal resonant dipole (266 meters), strung from tree to tree in 
woods 2 meters above the ground using aluminum fence wire and electric 
fence insulators.  The wire is oriented ssw from NW Vermont (Milton), 
which is also the direction of maximum vertical E-field radiation.  It 
is broadband transformer matched from ~130 Ohms to 50 Ohms.  The rain 
does not affect tuning.  The 1.5:1 SWR bandwidth is nearly 35kHz.
I will run till ~11PM, then announce future times.  I am not set up for 
QRSS yet.